Health and
aged care

We have substantial experience in acting for clients in the health and aged care sector, including private and public providers, aged care developers, research organisations, health insurers, not-for-profit organisations and pharmaceutical companies.

Our cross-practice team covers the following areas:

Property and projects: preparing documents for retirement village developments, sales, purchases, acquisitions and subdivisions, and preparing and negotiating agreements

Corporate and commercial: mergers and acquisitions, corporate advisory and board advice, compliance with the Corporations Act and capital raising

Banking and finance: acting for lenders and borrowers in syndicated loan agreements and preparing operating and equipment lease finance transactions

Acting for the Austin Hospital, Epworth Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital in relation to hospital upgrades, including the supply and installation of CT scanning and MRI equipment.

Acting for the Australian Red Cross in relation to the development of the Victorian and Tasmanian Principal site.

Advising Australian Unity on a range of property, planning and construction matters in respect of commercial and retail property developments throughout Australia.

Acting for Horizon Health in relation to the relocation of Monash IVF.

Acting for Cytopia Limited (a biotech company that was formerly ASX listed), in relation to its proposal (pursuant to a requisition by 5% of the company’s members) to remove all of the directors of Progen Pharmaceuticals Limited and appoint three new directors.

Acting for Mylan Inc. on the Australian aspects of its USD $6.7 billion acquisition of Merck KGaA’s global generic pharmaceuticals business.

Acting for Affinity Health on several operating lease finance transactions for large items of health care equipment.

Conducting privacy compliance training for the national sales team and head office at UCB Pharma.

Preparing and implementing a collective agreement, drafting employment contracts and advising on dismissals generally for a large pharmaceutical wholesale.

Acting for the Australian Stem Cell Centre on a number of matters, including:

defending claims for discrimination and termination;

transmission of business advice on transferring employees to other institutions; and

providing Freedom of Information and privacy advice.

Acting for Prince Henry’s Institute on a number of matters, including:

drafting and implementing a certified agreement, including representing the institute in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission; and

providing day-to-day employment advice, including advising on termination of employment and redundancies issues and an employee bullying claim.

Providing strategic advice to an aged care provider on the management of a near-miss safety incident, and advising on dismissing injured employees in various States, including the application of workers compensation legislation in each State.